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Re: passwords


From: "eer7y3n0h" <eer7y3n0h () nuvox net>
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 13:15:57 -0500

On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 14:01, ullmic6 wrote:
Hello all,

one of the favorite subjects in my company seems to be the strength of
passwords. We force our users to change their mail password every 90 days.
Does this make sense? Why?

--
ullmic






Yes it makes sense.

But only if strong passwords are enforced as well.  Let them use leet and
they might even forget it's a chore.

And really, every password they have should be changed, not just the mail
pw.


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